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I like using Selecta as a fuzzy file opener in Vim. It doesn't do any caching, so I never have to remember to flush the cache after generating a migration in Rails. The downside is that if you work on a larger project, it can get kinda pokey. Selecta's Vim…

I use keyboard browsing extensions in my browsers. Vimium in Chrome, and Pentadactyl in Firefox. They emulate shortcuts I'm used to in Vim, and allow me to browse the internet without touching my mouse, for the most part. The core functionality is that whenever I press the f key, every…

Fate/Zero parody/fan fiction. Spoilers, obviously. Spoilers? Spoilers, spoilers. Gas leaks! The scene: As Emiya and Kiri fight to the death, the grail summoning is completed. As the victor of the war, Emiya is pulled into a reality marble. The grail, appearing to him in the form of his…

I enjoy reading The Setup. Who are you, and what do you do? I'm @JamesGecko, and I do web development. Right now it's mostly PhoneGap and Ruby on Rails stuff. What hardware do you use? My non-work home machine is a gaming desktop I assembled for cheap on Black Friday…

Some people like scary games. I'm not really an Amnesia: Dark Descent kind of guy. My favorite horror game is this little bugger, Illuminator, which I pull up every Halloween. It's from a project on the TIGSource forums called Action 52 Owns. It looks like this: Let's talk about why…

Nintendo announced a new version of the 3DS with more buttons about a week after I wrote the bulk of this. Ah, well. It's still an interesting exercise. What would Dark Souls look like if it was on the first generation Nintendo 3DS? Attack and defense controls The 3DS has…